Telco tussle
Telco giant Orange has unveiled what it claims to be the lowest pay monthly mobile broadband price plan on the market.
You can now get mobile broadband for £4.89 per month, with a free dongle, as long as you don't mind signing up for 18 months and being restricted to 500 Mb per month usage allowance.
There's one other catch: the Orange Internet Everywhere service is only offered as an additional deal to existing Orange mobile and home broadband customers.
Orange has also announced three Early Bird mobile broadband tariffs, apparently designed for insomniacs, which allow unlimited use between midnight and 9am on top of the standard allowances.
The mobile broadband market is getting ever more competitive in anticipation of the next generation of netbooks, smartbooks and mobile internet devices, with the telco channel expected to be increasingly where many consumers acquire these devices.